In continuation of our series on the Papacy, Justin Hibbard gives a brief snapshot of some of the greatest Popes in history. What common traits did these great Popes share; how did they balance spiritual, political, and administrative leadership; and how did their papacies change the world?

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SHOW NOTES:

• Battle of Lepanto - painting by Andries van Eertvelt

• Episode 90 - The Hypostatic Union

• The Tome of Leo (449)

• Episode 111 - Papal Infallibility

• Canons of the Council of Chalcedon (451)

• Episode 104 - The Nuclear Football

• Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton

• Letters of Pope St. Gregory Great

• Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyla

• Dignitatis Humanae (1965)

• Gaudium et spes (1965)

• Humanae Vitae (1968)

• Evangelii Nuntiandi (1975)

• Video of Pope John Paul II’s Election

• Video Playlist of 1995 World Youth Day Mass in Manilla, Philippines

• Video: 40 years ago, John Paul II's first visit to Poland that brought the collapse of communism by Rome Reports

• The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis

• Video: Assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II

• Video: Pope John Paul II Meets His Would-Be Assassin

• Code of Canon Law (1983)

• Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (1990)

• Episode 63 - Not All Catholics are Roman Catholic

• Catechism of the Catholic Church

• Episode 105 - The Upside Down Kingdom

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